15 Instagram Story Ideas For Engagement

Instagram Stories can be a scary place. It’s the one place that does not have to be curated and a place to show people your everyday life. Talking to your phone can be SUPER awkward at first. Once you overcome that fear, you watch your insights in real time. You began to second guess yourself or if you see the views going down throughout the day, you question what you’re even doing. We all have been there as creators. Asking ourselves, “Should I post this?”, “Does anyone even care?”, “IDK what I am doing”

Whether you have 1 follower or thousands, your community wants to see you show up on Instagram stories. If you are unsure of where to start, join my free 5 day Instagram Story Challenge next Monday!

Once we get over the fear of showing up on Instagram stories, we began to think about content creation. Creating engaging content can be time consuming & frustrating.

15 Instagram Story Ideas:

5 Value Content Ideas

Providing value on Instagram is essential. Instagram is evaluating and surveying your community. This type of content also gives you the opportunity to talk about what it is that you offer. I am not talking about selling, but leading people to other resources that you can help them with!

1. Mini training: Teach your community something in a couple of slides
2.  Answer FAQs: Be a resource to your community 
3. Refer your community to your freebie. Let them know what you can help them with and refer them to your freebie 
4. Share a mistake. Tell your community a mistake you’ve made and give them advice on how they can avoid it. 
5. Create a challenge: If your community is struggling with something. Help them improve by creating a challenge to help them stay on track. This could be a great way to build your email list

5 Engaging Instagram Story Ideas

Engaging content keeps your community coming back & clicking your bubble. When using engagement content, make sure you are using stickers. Instagram stories should always be a two way conversation rather than a “hey look at me” situation. 

1. Two truths & a lie: You can give your community a two truths & a lie options and then explain the answers. 
2. Unpopular opinions: Everyone loves to give their opinion, so let your community respond. Once you allow them to do so.
3.  Host a guessing game with a giveaway involved. I once gave $5 to the person who guessed how much my bag cost. I had over 50 responses 
4. Solve my problem: My community helped Robin & I purchase a car. I did polls, question boxes etc during the entire process. 
5. Allow your community to choose what they see on stories. 

5 Personal Content Ideas

This type of content allows your audience to get to know the real you Attaliah. You can share who you are. Remember that people buy people. What are your likes, dislikes, etc. 

1. Share your Journey
2. Tell us about a hobby
3. Spill your secrets and invite others to do the same anonymously.
4. Share a personal lesson
5. Show us your goofy, shy, fun, etc side

I hope these ideas help you with creating content on Instagram stories!